“We must use our voices to call out this historic injustice and right this wrong. I am hopeful that we can come together to do just that this Congress,” Carper said in a statement.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser thanked Carper, saying statehood cannot wait and there are promising signs that the District s 700,000 residents could soon have voting representation in Congress.
H.R. 51, the House of Representative’s matching legislation, was reintroduced to the 117th Congress earlier this year by D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. It calls for non-federal areas of the city to be admitted to the union “on an equal footing with other states,” with two senators and one voting representative.
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